4.0% ▲ +179.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Walpole · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Walpole, where only 4% of people use another language at home. This is far below the 22.3% national figure, making it one of the more linguistically uniform areas in the region.
English and the largest community languages.
While 90.7% of residents speak only English, no one in the area speaks little or no English. This is well below the national figure of 3.4%, with Italian being the only other language recorded at 0.9%.
4.0% ▲ +179.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Walpole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51510/walpole/topic/language